On 02/16/2012 11:57 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
becasue it is mandatory and logical as pre-condition to disallow booting from external media
You know that, I know that and, I'd hope, everybody on this list knows that. I can assure you, however, from almost a decade's experience doing tech support, that there are an awful lot of people out there who know just enough to block booting from external media but not enough to finish the job by setting a BIOS password.
It's a tad off topic, but that somehow reminded me of the time I was walking a network professional through configuring a router that he'd never worked with before. (Neither had I, but unlike him, I had a cheat sheet.) Password protecting the router was optional, and most people didn't bother. He did, and I told him to be sure to write down the password Just In Case. He assured me that it was something he wouldn't forget.
Of course, he'd not only gotten one of the settings wrong, he'd forgotten the password in the time it took the router to reboot and get tested. I had to send him to OEM support to find out how to reset the router to factory default. (I knew it wasn't too hard if you had physical access, but didn't have the instructions.)
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